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2024 NBA Championship odds: Can Celtics overcome Mavericks?

Updated May. 31, 2024 10:53 a.m. ET

The NBA playoffs have reached the Finals.

Boston punched its ticket to the championship round by sweeping the Indiana Pacers in the Eastern Conference finals, and Dallas finished off Minnesota in five games in the Western Conference finals on Thursday night.

Now, it's time to bet on the NBA Finals.

At FanDuel Sportsbook, the Celtics opened as the favorites over the Mavericks .

"The mentality of that team is, if they don't win it, it's going to be a bust season," former Celtics guard Eddie House said Tuesday morning on "The Carton Show" in reference to Boston.

Let's jump into the action, with odds from FanDuel as of May 30:

NBA FINALS ODDS:

Boston -225, Dallas +185

This week, Colin Cowherd expressed doubt that Boston can actually hoist the Larry O'Brien Trophy, given what he deemed an easy path out East and the lack of a dominant superstar.

Boston is 12-2 in these playoffs and went 41-11 against the East in the regular season.

Will the Celtics win their first NBA Finals since 2008?

"They are very, very good, and very skilled, but they're not great," Cowherd said on "The Herd." "And I don't know how to make the Celtics go from very good to great. And that's where it's interesting. Jayson Tatum is their best player, but offensively, he mostly floats off the ball. He does not take the game over. He is not Luka [Doncic]. His personality is not alpha.

" … If you watch the Celtics play, on five different possessions, they could have five different Celtic players score. It would look fantastic, but it's almost too collaborative."

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